Comfort grip



Sept. 25,1923. 1,469,125

H-. M. TENNANT v COMFORT GRIP- Filed Sept. 13 1922 Fatented Sept. 25, 1923.

lll li'l TAT titans HAROLD a. 'rnnnanr, or SAN JOSE, oanrroanra.

CODIFGRT GRIP.

Application filed September 13, 1922. Serial No. 588,099.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that HAROLD M. TENNANT, a citizen of the United States of America. residing at San Jose, in the county of Santa Clara and. State of California, has invented new and useful Improvements in Comfort Grips, of which the following is a specification. I

The object of the invention is to provide simple and efficient means for holding lap robes, steamer rugs, bed clothing and the like in proper position without necessitatingihe'constant use of the hands to avoid displacement due to arring, wind, or the like; and'with this object in View the invention consists in a constru tion and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1. is a'perspective view, and

Figure 2 is a plan view ofa holder or grip embodying the invention.

Figure 3 is a side view indicating in dotted lines the arrangement ofthe robe or comfort in relation thereto.

The device consists of a transversely arched or looped frame 10 carrying cooperative jaws 11 and 12 of which the latter is rigidly attached to one end of the frame by the screws 13 or the equivalent thereof while the former is pivotally mounted upon the other end of the frameby means of a screw 14 or its equivalent, anchoring means being adapted for conne tion with the second-named jaw through the agency of an eye 15 and a flexible connection 16 consisting of a tape or the equivalent thereof which may be tied to the side of. a vehicle seat or a ate-a r chair or a bedstead.

Carried by and arranged in operative relation with the fixed or stationary jaw 12 of the dev ce is a bowed spring 17 terminally attached in the construction illustrated at 18 to one side surface of said jaw and terminally hearing at its free end upon the opposite side surface of said jaw. so that the edge of the robe or comfort indicated at 19 may be engaged between said free terminal of the bowed spring and the side of the jaw 12 and thence passed between the obliquely disposed cooperative faces 20 of the jaws. so that tensile strain applied to the robe or comfort engaged as indicated will tend to close the jaws and thereby increase the ,Qrippinp; action thereof so that the possibility of disengagement is minimixed. The arched portion 10 of the frame is designed to accommodate the edge -or rolled or slack portion of the robe or comfort in passing between the engaging faces of the jaws, so that the jaws may engage the fabric of the robe at a sufficient distance from the edge thereof to prevent unne'essarily straining or risking the tearingthereof.

.i favinndescribed the inventiomivhat is cla med as new and useful is 1 A ,qrip for the purpose indicated havinc; cooperating clamping jaws arranged for terminal cooperative relation, one of said jaws being pivotallv mounted for swinging movement in the plane of the other, and a flexible anchoring connection terminally connected to the remote end of the pivoted iaw and tending under stress to keep the jaws in engaged relation.

"a grip for the purpose indicatedhaving cooperating clamping jaws arranged for terminal cooperative relation, one of said jaws being pivotally mounted for swinging movement in the plane of the other jaw, and a bowed spring carried by one of said jaws and having a free terminal yieldingly impelled to ard a side surface thereof for engaging aninterposed robe.

3. A. grip for the purpose indicated havin;- cooperating -larnpinfir jaws arranged for terminal cooperativerelation, one of said jaws being pivotal y mounted forswinfrring nnwernent in the plane of the other jaw, said jaws being carried by a supporting frame having laterally bowed portion in the transverse plane of the i'neetinp; faces of the jaws. i i I In testimony whereof he affixes his 'signa ture. Y

HAROLD M. TENNANT. 

